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I have installed Hackintosh on to my System, but the CPU cooler is obviously louder then on Windows.
I am using right now VirtualSMC.kext, but since FakeSMC provides temperature measurement tools, and VirtualSMC not, I asked my self if that might be a hint for my loud cooler?
My question, has somebody tried maybe both and even compared them? And is FakeSMC maybe less noisy?
Is it enough to just mount EFI partition, and delete the VirtualSMC.kext and put instead FakeSMC.kexts ? Without any fancy kext installation tool or terminal commands, just replace files and restart in enough?
My System:
Mainboard: Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Ultra
CPU: Intel i9 9900k
CPU Cooler: BeQuiet! Dark Rock 4
GPU: Vega 64
Ram: 2x16GB Corsair 3200
SSD: 1TB Adata M.2
The Tutorial i have used - https://github.com/cmer/gigabyte-z390-aorus-master-hackintosh/blob/master/STEP_BY_STEP.md
Really works like a charm besides, the more noisy cooler, which i bought because it is extra quietly.
I asked first at tonymac's forum, but they deleted the post because I haven't used their tool, really disgustig.. I really hope to never use their tools, and I hope here the information freedom is more respected.
#f. tonyhoremacs

This is a brief guide on how to create a vanilla El Capitan (also same process for Sierra) OS X Installer USB with an updated prelinked kernel containing FakeSMC.
It is tailored for those users who want to understand the “nuts and bolts” of how to create an installer and also to help brush up on their terminal skills (rather than have one made for them with the numerous automated “tools” available or even Apple’s createinstallmedia) :
Specifically, it is also a “Proof of Concept” which shows that installation is possible without even having to rely on boot loader kext injection. Prerequisites
Existing Yosemite installation (or Mavericks - see post#4 for steps 7,8)
“Install OS X El Capitan.app" downloaded to the Applications folder
Pacifist
FakeSMC.kext - Slice or Kozlek branch
Bootloader - Clover or Chameleon
8GB or larger USB drive (16GB recommended), formatted HFS+ (MBR or GUID) named “Installer”
Procedure
1. Boot into Yosemite with the kext-dev-mode=1 boot flag
2. Open OS X terminal and type the following lines, followed by <Enter> after each line.
The image restore and file copying may take a while to complete, and at the end of the process, the Installer volume is renamed to “OS X Base System"....
sudo -s
hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
asr restore -source /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/Installer -erase -format HFS+ -noprompt -noverify
rm /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/Packages
cp -av /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation
cp -av /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.chunklist /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System
diskutil unmount /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD
exit
3. Right click on the “OS X Base System” Volume and click “Get Info”
4. Click on the lock icon and untick “Ignore ownership on this volume”
5. Extract/Copy the El Capitan Kernels folder into /System/Library/ of the USB with Pacifist. NB It is found in the "Essentials.pkg" in /System/Installation/Packages
6. Delete or Rename the original /System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel —> OG.prelinkedkernel
7. Copy FakeSMC.kext and other necessary kexts (e.g. VoodooPS2Controller.kext for laptops) into the /Library/Extensions folder of the installer USB using Finder.
8. Back in terminal, type the following lines, followed by <Enter> after each line to rebuild the prelinkedkernel…..
sudo -s
chmod -R 755 /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Library/Extensions
chown -R 0:0 /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Library/Extensions
touch /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Library/Extensions
kextcache -u /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System
exit
Any errors should be noted but the output below is normal e.g.
9. Install your Bootloader targeting the OS X Base System volume
10. Boot your system with the USB without injected kexts into the OS X Installer GUI....
Post Install
The original prelinked kernel in a fresh install of El Capitan will also lack FakeSMC ie it will only be linked to Apple signed kexts. In order to boot into El Capitan the first time around without boot loader kext injection, the PLK needs to be rebuilt for the El Capitan volume like we did for the installer:
1. Boot into Yosemite with the kext-dev-mode=1 boot flag
2. Delete or Rename the original /System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel for the El Capitan volume —> OG.prelinkedkernel
3. Copy FakeSMC.kext and other necessary kexts (e.g. VoodooPS2Controller.kext for laptops) into the /Library/Extensions folder of El Capitan using Finder
4. Back in terminal, type the following lines, followed by <Enter> after each line to rebuild the prelinkedkernel. In this example, the El Capitan volume is named "El_Capitan" - change if you have named it something else...
sudo -s
chmod -R 755 /Volumes/El_Capitan/Library/Extensions
chown -R 0:0 /Volumes/El_Capitan/Library/Extensions
touch /Volumes/El_Capitan/System/Library/Extensions
kextcache -u /Volumes/El_Capitan
exit
5. Install your Bootloader targeting the El Capitan volume. This step is only necessary if you are installing El Capitan on a new drive without existing boot loader (not required if installing on a disk with existing boot loader beside Yosemite).
6. Reboot your system without injected kexts into El Capitan!
Other links
The All-In-One Guide to Vanilla OS X for beginners
Updates for Sierra and High Sierra
Custom Prelinkedkernel Generator Tool
I have made a custom prelinkedkernel generator "PLK.tool" for Sierra + El Capitan. Instructions:
1. Download and extract the attached BaseSystem_PLK.tool.zip into your ~/Downloads folder.
2. Copy any extra kexts necessary for booting your hack to ~/Downloads/BaseSystem/ExtraKexts (e.g. FakeSMC, VoodooPS2Controller), making sure SIP is disabled.
3. Copy BaseSystem.dmg to ~/Downloads/BaseSystem
4. Open terminal and run the following commands...
cd ~/Downloads/BaseSystem
chmod +x PLK.tool
./PLK.tool
---> supply your admin password ---> will place your new custom prelinkedkernel on the desktop.
macOS High Sierra bypass Firmware and MBR checks in post#13.
BaseSystem_PLK.tool_ElCap.zip
BaseSystem_PLK.tool_Sierra.zip
BaseSystem_PLK.tool_Mojave.zip (need to run in Mojave to avoid dependency errors)

It started when I updated FakeSMC and then Safari said it was offline, this was bogus because Chrome works fine. I tried the AppStore and it is not connecting to the internet as well and neither was iTunes. I cannot ping google in terminal but I can access my router and modem pages just fine in Safari and ping them in terminal.

Apologies if this is in the incorrect forum! This isn't my first hackintosh, but my first post on this forum. It's not a question, it's not even a guide - it's actually just my experiences installing this time around. I ran in to some really common problems, and I'm hoping that perhaps people googling can see how easy they are to deal with. I'm also using it as a thank you to this whole community. If this is any good I'll do a similar one when I replace my Dell Mini (1011) LCD and dual boot it with Xubuntu.
Specs (Early 2009 Build - So pretty low-spec):
Motherboard: Asus PD5SD2-VM
Processor: Intel Celeron Dual Core 2.0Ghz
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GT520 1GB
RAM: 2x 2GB Crucial DDR2 Modules
Hard Disk Drive: SATA Based
Optical Disk Drive: SATA Based
Wifi USB Adaptor: Asus WL167g V3
Windows 8 Installation
I ran the windows installer first as I knew it would probably be rather temperamental with installing on a disk formatted in a way it doesn't expect; however I made a bit of a boo-boo and forgot to make another partition for Mac OS X. (I left half the disk drive unformatted; so essentially free space)
The windows 8 installation was done via a USB drive made with WinUSB and was rather uneventful. (If anyone's thinking of trying windows 8; my advice is don't bother. I hate it. It's like a tablet computer had sex with a desktop and it had an inbred child who couldn't make his mind up what he wanted to be.*) I installed my essential apps (Developer tools mainly.) and set forth on the hackintosh journey once more!
Lion Installation
This is where the first problem occurred: I couldn't make a suitable bootable media. In the past I used my Fedora box and ran 'dd' to transfer the disk image, but this wasn't working this time. I took a punt with Transmac and it paid off - I soon had my DVD burned.
I hit the usual 'Waiting for root disk' error - so checked my BIOS and realised I hadn't set my BIOS settings correctly. I soon booted into the DVD and found that Disk Utility couldn't partition the free space on my hard drive; this was quickly fixed by using diskpart from the Windows 8 command line.
I know using "distro" hackintosh packages is the source of a huge debate, but I went for iAtkos purely for simplicity. Let me tell you something though; when people say DVD is slower than USB as an installation media - they're on to something! This was a horrifically slow installation; or it seemed like it.* If you're like me though, you'll be pleased to get that far! My second issue with the installation was the dreaded '[PCI Configuration begin]' hang - this was fixed the 'npci=0x2000' boot flag though.
When I rebooted post-install everything was working out of the box. Previously, with the same hardware and same OS I had to install VoodooHDA to handle audio; not this time! My mouse didn't want to work during the set-up though, so I had to use my keyboard only - when I eventually booted in to the desktop it worked though.
I rebooted to ensure everything was working fine when I hit a snag - F718x: Fintek: Found unsupported chip. I rebooted several times and always hit this before a kernel panic; they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing multiple times expecting a different outcome; and this most certainly was driving me insane.
I managed to boot in to single user mode however, and remove the kext that was causing the issue...
mount /
cd /System/Library/Extensions/SuperIOFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/
rm -rf F718x.kext
reboot
Upon another restart I was finally in a working environment. I was still having to use that npci boot flag though - so I edited the chameleon boot.plist file like so..
$ cd /Extra/
$ sudo nano org.chameleon.Boot.plist
...
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v npci=0x2000</string>
…
Next up was installing the drivers for my ASUS WL167g V3 - this was flawless, simply using the drivers from the ASUS website. This little USB adaptor cost a mere 7GBP - and I love it like a mother loves her child.
So now I had a working system; but there was still one little hitch - I was running 10.7.2 when I really wanted to be running the latest and greatest 10.7.4; so now for the real part I was dreading… updating!
I downloaded the combo update from the apple website and ran it; whilst it was running I generally twiddled my thumbs, played with my gum where a wisdom tooth has rudely decided to penetrate and hoped for the best.. It wasn't the best time to be thinking 'Oh {censored}, wasn't I going to make an image of my partition as soon as I got this system running?'!
When the update was finished installing I ran ######, at this point I will admit - I didn't know what to actually install. After all - everything worked out of the box to begin with, and I don't know exactly what voodoo magic was making my system work! Still, I decided now would be a good time to install the NVidia support for GT5** cards, some bootloader themes and FakeSMC just incase it was messed up during the update. I then rebooted and prayed for the best...
Uh oh! 'IntelCPUMonitor: can't add key to fake SMC device' and a kernel panic. I booted up in Single User Mode and removed the IntelCPUMonitor.kext before restarting and re-running ###### - installing FakeSMC and FakeSMC plugins again. I also went and deleted F718x.kext again, as ###### re-installed it as one of the FakeSMC plugins.
This time AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement was throwing kernel panics. I figured that NullCPUPowerManagement was doing a job and they might be clashing, so I moved ApplePUPowerManagement to another directory in single user mode. Reboot.. and the same.
I went and laid in bed, it was 0430 and I was admitting defeat. I laid there cursing every damn .kext file that existed. Then, a sudden rush of excitement came over me, and being a persistent son of a {censored} I marched over to my PC and fixed it once and for all. I booted into Single user mode and placed AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext back in it's rightful place and removed IntelCPUMonitor. Reboot… it works. Flawlessly. I chuckled to myself as though I had defeated an army that was trying to ruin my attempts at world domination.
I then set about finally installing xCode, Chrome, Github and some more geekery before declaring a job well done.
Last step? Updating the OSx86 10.7.0 HCL of course!
In the next episode
Marmite discovers that his Windows 8 partition now won't boot - due to a Boot Configuration Data (BCD) issue. Will our protagonist fix it? Will he use EasyBCD? What about those annoying niggles such as keyboard layouts? Stay tuned for post-installation gossip..
Lessons Learnt:
- Partition your hard drive completely at the beginning, even if you create the second partition in FAT32 or NTFS - Disk Utility will be able to erase these partitions, but will not be able to create a new partition from free space!
- Create a restore point in Windows; this is obvious but it didn't occur to me. Windows WILL {censored} and moan when you boot in to it again; and if it's windows 8 you have no choice but to let it roll back to a previous restore point.
- Updates. Can. Be. A. Pain. In. The. Ass. (If not handled correctly! Prior googling would've led me to see this was actually quite a common problem I experienced.)
-The OSX86/hackintosh community is second to none. Often with some of the best technical discussions I've seen on the internet; much of it due to many people who are only too willing to lend a hand and try and troubleshoot when the original poster won't even utter a thank you; on behalf of all those posters who have forgot to say Thanks, or have argued with the advice they've received, I'd like to say Thanks. It's not often you can spend 5 seconds on google and almost definitely get an answer to a query.
Issues - all of which can be fixed when I get around to it no doubt:
- My RAM isn't picked up correctly; 333Mhz apparently - but this is a minor issue!
- Similarly, upon booting the System partition of Windows 8 is auto-mounted; a bit annoying
- Booting without -v gives me a kernel panic…!?
*My girlfriend went as far as being 'Oh, Macs look awful and confusing - I'd never spend money on a mac when a PC is so cheaper' to 'Wow, that's just convinced me to go Mac when that is out.' when she saw Windows 8.
**As a side note on installation times, when I was working as an ACMT at an AASP I was taught that on a Leopard installation it was not unusual to wait up to an hour for the installer to move from the '40 minute' mark. I'm not sure if this is still the case today (I'm no longer an ACMT) but that's a little factoid that may come in useful!

Hello guys, it's been a long time since I've been here but anyway, nobody cares I guess. 2 Days ago I booted up a backup of one of my Mavericks installations of my hack. As I am a very data conscious user, I have Little Snitch installed. It's a really good firewall made for (Mac) OS X, in my eyes a must have for every Mac user. As the boot process was nearly completed, Little Snitch showed me that HWMonitor.app wanted to connect to paypalobjects.com. This is really odd, as this Application doesn't seem to have any PayPal donate button or something similar. Sadly, I was too baffled and didn't make a screenshot of the Little Snitch alert. However, I have a screenshot of my settings, this is no evidence as one can easily make those rules by hand, but still. Why should I lie? I have no competitional websites nor softwares in the hackintosh scene (I'm just saying this, because of the controversy between the person mentioned below and other devs). I wanted to reproduce this behaviour, but it hasn't happened to me again. Do you guys know what's going on here? Have you encountered this before? I could not find anything on the web. I installed the HWMonitor.app with the FakeSMC apps with one of Phonymacs postinstall packages. It was M ultibeas t, this has to be typed out as this is potential(!) malware. I already removed this software from my machine as I really don't want ANY communication between an Application that monitors temperatures of my hardware to ANYONE. If people choose to send all their data (roomtemperatures, health data, etc. pp. the industry never sleeps to become more creepy...) to someone even though they don't know what happens next, then that's not my problem - I don't want that. Please tell me your thoughts on this and please write here if you noticed this too! Greetings, hipunk

Hello,
I'm trying to install El Capitan on my computer, I've made a USB installation drive using [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] (with the deafult clover boot loader). now when i try to boot from the installer it gets stuck and gives me this line:
"com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.ntp.sntp.117) 《Warning》: Service exited with abnormal code: 255"
I've read a lot about this and tried almost everything, including:
-Removing numbered directories and only leaving the "other" folder with FakeSMC.kext inside it.
-Trying different versions of FakeSMC from different sources including tonymacx86 and RehabMan.
-Trying different combination of kernel flags including rootless=0 , nv_disabler , -x -f and so on.
-Cheking if kext injection is enabled in config.plist, which it was.
The interesting part is that i am able get to the installer on my other PC! Which i think means that FakeSMC is functioning properly.
My Laptop is Asus k52f, pretty old but i've been able to run almost all previous distributions on this computer
My other computer is even older than this one,while it actually does get to the installer
Here's my system's configuration:
Asus k52f Laptop-
CPU = Intel Pentium p6200
Ram = 3GB
GPU = IntelHDGraphics 1st Generation
I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me with this problem

Hi,
So i finally got my hackintosh fully working (sound was a pain but i finally made it work)
So i overclocked a bit, did some testing but I couldn't see any temperatures.
Did some research and found that some kexts make it work (Fakesmc plugins) Installed it, and now it wont boot.
What i tried:
Installed hackintosh on another disk and deleted the kexts on my main hackintosh disk.
El capitan 10.11.3 Skylake i5 6600k Msi z170a gaming pro Msi 970
screen of verbose boot: http://imgur.com/lGBYrNH

HWSensor Features
Control temperature of Intel and AMD CPU
Control temperature of AMD, Intel and NVidia cards
Control temperature of motherboard
Control FANS
Control Voltages
Control HDD/SSD state (SATA & NVMe) with S.M.A.R.T. monitoring
Control frequencies
Laptop Battery Monitoring
Different applications support
High Sierra compatible
Installation to /S/L/E or in the ESP (Clover only)
Supported languages:
English (base), Russian, Italian, Korean and semplified Chinese
Source code: at https://sourceforge.net/p/hwsensors/hwsensors3/code3/HEAD/tree/
Bugs report at https://sourceforge.net/p/hwsensors/hwsensors3/tickets/
Topic for discussion at: https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299861-hwsensors3/
Chief ﻿Developer @Slice, new HWMonitorSMC2.app and package by @v﻿ector sigma﻿

Hello all, I've been having some problems recently with nvda exceptions and I was reading on forums about the problem. One user suggested changing your system definition to Mac Pro 5,1. So I opened ##### and attempted to change the definition, I rebooted, and I could not boot normally without a panic. I went into safe mode and I figured that each time you install from ##### you need to reinstall all your drivers again (correct me if I'm wrong). So I did so and now I can't boot into anything, not from my ##### drive, not with any boot flag, nothing. I think I had a conflict between fakesmc and CPU power management (read something on that in the forums). I even deleted both Kexts from the computer. No dice. I'm probably doing something wrong when I install my drivers in ##### since I've had this problem before.
Is there any way to fix power management without a full reinstall? I kind of have a few important files in my machine. Thanks so much in advance for the help.

UPDATE: Managed to make Apple Store work for the first time ever! I installed IntelMausiEthernet.kext first so it can be assigned to "en0", then I installed my USB WIFI dongle(Brand: Netis. Chipset: Realtek RTL8192CU8). Tried to patch AppleHDA.kext for my ALC892. I can see 4 outputs and 2 input. Only one input works. Everything else doesn't work. I'm still working on it.
Hello, everyone!
For those who were having problems installing OS X El Capitan on X99A SLI Plus with Core i7 5820K Haswell-E, here's how I fixed it: First of all, I used the RAW USB image from this link: (thepiratebay is down at the moment, just go to thepiratebay.com and it will redirect to the current domain they're using, then type 'el capitan intel pcs' and download the most seeded file you find at the top of the results.) The thing about this image is that it can be installed via Windows using Win32 Disk Imager, for those who want to install OS X for the first time or their OS X got damaged and it cannot be recovered. I used a version of FakeSMC.kext(see attachments) I found by chance, and I replaced the other FakeSMC.kext stored in the USB EFI partition via Windows. (EFI/CLOVER/Kexts/10.11/) In addition to that, I removed Voodoo PS2 controller kext--just to be safe--because I've been having KPs because of it since 2009 on OS X Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.
For boot args, I used: -v npci=0x2000 I also enabled Haswell-E patch. If I don't replace FakeSMC.kext with the one attached, I get a KP concerning CPUSensors.kext plugin which can be found inside FakeSMC.kext.
I hope this helps.
(Posting this from OS X El Capitan)
FakeSMC.kext.zip